King Record Co., Ltd. (ã‚ãƒ³ã‚°ãƒ¬ã‚³ãƒ¼ãƒ‰æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾, Kingu RekÅdo Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese record company, founded in 1931 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha. It became and began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. Now one of Japan's largest record companies not to be owned by a multinational entity, it is headquartered in Tokyo.
Sub-labels
Its Starchild label, managed by animation producer Toshimichi ÅŒtsuki, specialises in anime music and film. King Records also distributes the Up-Front Worksâ€"owned and â€"operated labels Piccolo Town and Rice Music, and also released video games for the PC-88, Famicom, and MSX2 computers.
You! Be Cool is the official sub-label for AKB48.
Venus-B is the company's official urban music imprint.
Evil Line Records is the label's new division, established on April 2014, and comprises artists like Momoiro Clover Z and Meg, among others.
Notable artists
- FUKI (Doll$Boxx)
- Sano Hana (Doll$Boxx)
- Suzuki Reona (Doll$Boxx)
- Koga Michiko (Doll$Boxx)
- Midorikawa Tomoko (Doll$Boxx)
- Matenrou Opera
- Inoran
- Kana Uemura
- Nogod
- Takeshi Terauchi
- Miho Nakayama
- Hiroko Moriguchi
- AKB48 (You, Be Cool!)
- Tomomi Itano
- Atsuko Maeda
- Nana Mizuki
- Yukari Tamura
- Mamoru Miyano
- YuiKaori
- Yui Horie (Starchild)
- Momoiro Clover Z (Starchild)
- Meg (Starchild)
- Lynch.
- Theatre Brook
- Ryoko Shiraishi (Starchild)
- Megumi Hayashibara (Starchild)
- angela (Starchild)
- Ai Nonaka (Starchild)
- Eri Kitamura (Starchild)
- Soichiro Hoshi (Starchild)
- Haruka Fukuhara
- Sawa (Bellwood)
- B.A.P
- Park Junyoung
- David Silverman
- Block B
References
External links
- King Records Japan (Japanese)
- King Records Japan (English)
- Starchild (Japanese)
- Starchild (English)
- Venus-B
- King Records (Japan)'s channel on YouTube
- Starchild Records at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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